Ling 3.1 Flash vs Kimi K3
Ling 3.1 Flash took 75 min 28 s and $0.055 at list price, Kimi K3 took 22 min 52 s and $1.92 at list price. Ling 3.1 Flash took 3.3× as long, and Kimi K3 cost 35× as much.
Ling 3.1 Flash
inclusionAI · $0.225/M out · 1 HN pts
Kimi K3
Moonshot AI · $15.00/M out · 9,870 HN pts
Pelican
Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle
Watch
Draw a mechanical wristwatch that shows the current local time, with a sweeping seconds hand and a date window. Make it look expensive.
Landing
Build the landing page for Lumen Cycles, a Copenhagen workshop that builds custom cargo bikes to order. Make it look like a real brand you would trust with 4,000 euros.
Breakout
Make a Breakout game I can play right now with the keyboard or the mouse. Give it several levels, a score and some juice.
Logo
Design a logo for Night Heron, an independent bookshop that only opens after dark.
About
Write the opening of the About us page for Patchbay, a three-person studio in Rotterdam that repairs vintage synthesizers. About 150 words.
Patchbay is a small repair studio in Rotterdam dedicated to keeping vintage synthesizers alive. We are three people — a technician, a historian, and a musician — who believe that the instruments built in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s still have decades of sound left in them, if someone is willing to care for them properly.
We work on everything from early Moogs and Arps to Roland Junos and Oberheim OB-series, handling everything from dead power supplies and leaky batteries to full recaps and voice board restoration. Our workshop is small by design. We take on a limited number of instruments at a time, which means every synth that comes through our door gets our full attention.
Most of our clients are working musicians, collectors, and small studios across Europe, but we also welcome instruments with stories we'd love to hear. If you have a piece of synth history that needs care, we'd be glad to talk.
Patchbay is a small workshop in Rotterdam where old synthesizers come back to life. We are three people — a former recording engineer, a self-taught circuit obsessive, and a classically trained pianist who fell in love with broken machines — and between us we have spent decades coaxing sound out of equipment the rest of the world gave up on.
We started Patchbay because we kept meeting the same problem: beloved instruments sitting silent in attics and studio corners, written off as unfixable. A Juno with a dead voice chip. A Prophet that drifts out of tune. A Moog that hums when it shouldn't. To us, none of these are lost causes. They are instruments with history in them, and they deserve careful hands, original parts where possible, and honest work.
Every synth that leaves our bench is played, tested, and listened to — because that is what it was made for.
Specs and numbers
| Ling 3.1 Flash | Kimi K3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | inclusionAI | Moonshot AI |
| Made in | China | China |
| Released | 2 Oct 2026 | 16 Jul 2026 |
| Price in, per M tokens | $0.075 | $0.192 |
| Price out, per M tokens | $0.225 | $15.00 |
| Context | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Weights | closed | open |
| Hacker News points | 1 | 9,870 |
| Time for the six prompts | 75 min 28 s | 22 min 52 s |
| List price of the six prompts | $0.055 | $1.92 |
Ling 3.1 Flash was cheaper: $1.86 less at list price, and less on each of the 6 prompts. Kimi K3 was faster: 52 min 36 s less in total, and faster on each of the 6 prompts.
In the recording, both Breakout games play.
Rebuild this screen experiment: Kimi K3's rebuild matched the screenshot at 68%; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it. Tea Garden experiment: Kimi K3's game passed 5 of 5 checks; Ling 3.1 Flash was not in it.